No evidence that e-cigarette use among US adolescents already smoking cigarettes is associated with subsequent abstinence
Saller FS, Israel T Agaku IT, Filippidis FT. Association between e-cigarette use initiated after cigarette smoking and smoking abstinence: a cross-sectional study among adolescent established smokers in the USA. Tobacco Control. Online First. January 7, 2021. https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2021/01/07/tobaccocontrol-2020-055943
“Study data were drawn from the 2015–2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey—a nationally representative survey of US middle and high school students. Multivariable logistic regression was used to assess the association between ever e-cigarette use and past 30-day abstinence from cigarette smoking…. We found no evidence that e-cigarette use among US adolescents already smoking cigarettes is associated with subsequent abstinence from cigarette smoking; there was some evidence of an inverse association among experimental and current established e-cigarette users.”
Stephen Hamann
